3. If you are interested in DMing a Google + game this week with other people who read this blog please leave your pitch in the comments below. Include this information:

Day

Time (describe the time you're available using at least one western hemisphere and one eastern hemisphere time zone so peeps can figure out whether they're around).

System(s)

Level

Do we need to bring anything? (like, say, a 3rd level character) and anything else you think might make your pitch intriguing--setting, etc.)(if your ruleset is unusual, it may be best to tell everybody to just show up with stats, a race and a class and smooth out the specifics once the game starts rolling.)

Contact info: Please include a way people can contact you other than Google + so that you can tell who they are when they request you and you can discuss details if they're not already one of your G+ contacts. If your name is like "Jack Wilson" realize there's 200 of you on Google plus and you'll need to supply some alternate information if G+ users are looking for you. (I'm the Zak Smith with the black and white picture and the asymmetrical haircut)._________________

Example:

Skooky McDungeonface will be DMing a Red Box game in Greyhawk at 1pm Italian time/4 am Pacific time next Tuesday. Bring a 4th level PC and she can be reached under the name Skooky dawt McDee at yahoo dawt calm.

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I (Humza Kazmi) will be running an AD&D game in my Legacy of the Bieth campaign setting at 10 PM EST/2 AM GMT on Friday, July 29. The setting aims for one part standard D&D tropes, one part spaghetti western, and one part post-apocalypse rebuilding. "When life meant little, death sometimes had its price. That was when the bounty killers appeared." Feel free to contact me at allandaros at gmail dot com.

Everyone bring a first level halfling. Roll 3d6 in order. If you don't get a Dex 9 and a Con 9 you may swap stats to achieve those minimums. If you didn't roll two scores of at least 9 please cheat.Don't bother buying equipment, as you start without any, in the troll's stewpot.

When speaking in character you are encouraged to use an outrageous French accent.

Anybody up to try Tunnels & Trolls 7.5edition Sunday night? I've never played (or GM'ed) T&T before but I've had the boxed set burning a hole in my pocket for the last several months. I'll try to prep a Character Creation handout in the next few days. Likely just a good old fashioned dungeon crawl.

Anybody who's interested can hit me up, I'm Capheind on Gmail.com, also http://www.goplus.us/capheind will take you to my G+ page, and if you've already added me to your circles hit me up there.

@Allandaros -- Man, if my usual game hadn't been moved to Friday this week I would totally be in for that. Any chance you'll be doing it again some time? I've really been craving some Western-flavored action.

Perhaps some Gigacrawler is in order? since many of us have helped contribute to that game. I'll see if I can come up with something unless someone else would like to DM. I'm already slated to run something this week otherwise I would do it for sure. On Google+ I'm Seth Schroeder, my picture is of a couple dressed in black and red.

If anyone wants to play a 3.5e game, I'd like to run one onsaturday 30 julyGMT: 12:00PST: 04:00(I could also do GMT 19:00 and PST 11:00, if that's more convenient.)It will take around 2 hours. Create a level 2 character, roll 4d6 drop lowest for abilities, with equipment worth 300 gp. Characters are presumed to be already a group and are on the road from point A to point B, on the road Adventure happens.I can be contacted on bennetakkerman (at) hotmail (dot) com and can be found on google+ as Bennet Akkerman.

I also might run a Gamma World game next week.

@Allandaros and others: how do people feel about players lacking system familiarity? I've always wanted to play an older edition.

Speaking of system familiarity, I've only ever GM'd d20 Call of Cthulhu, and am now playing in an AD&D 4, and a Pathfinder campaign -- if I put together and adventure, is there a preferred system, or should I just pick what i'm comfortable with?

I'm your friendly neighborhood, poly-system GM. I have hundreds of systems and I can run pick-up, insta-sessions for nWod, Unknown Armies, Buffy/Angel, L5R, Supernatural, Fiasco, Hollowpoint, WFRP 2E, Cyberpunk 2020 and a ton of others.

I'm the guy that does the big regular specific game circle list on G+ not just for kicks, but because I play or run most of those games and I own all but maybe three of them. Gamers have gotten lost in my walk-in closet of books and never returned. My PDFs are even more extensive.

Hit me up for a game any time you see me on Google. My time zone is -6 GMT, ask for a game and you'll either have something ran instantly or with a two hour warning.

As far as being a player, I'm a quick study. School me and I'm good to go whenever.

While your offer to GM anything whenever is admirable and generous, it will make scheduling and coordinating a bitch. A lot of questions will have to go back and forth with a lot of people before you have a game.

Would it be alright if I ask you to pick some game and pick a day and pick a time (or time range) just for this week?

For those that hadn't heard of it, here's Unknown Armies in a nutshell:

Unknown Armies is the roleplaying game of transcendental horror and furious action: Pulp Fiction meets Hellraiser.

In Unknown Armies, players take the roles of movers and shakers in the occult underground, fighting a battle for the ultimate prize: ascension to a higher plane and a hand in creating the next incarnation of reality.

Soon the cosmos will die and be reborn. Next time around, the world might be a terrible place -- or it could be a paradise. Someone gets to decide. Might as well be you. You could chart the course of reality itself, and make a new world in your image. You could be a god.

The problem is, lots of people have the same idea. Magickal adepts duke is out with gun-toting enforcers and weirdos of every stripe. Clockwork humans and plodding golems slip through the cracks of society. Entropics eat your memories and spit them back at you with poison added. Fringe groups like the Sect of the Naked Goddess, Mak Attax, The True Order of Saint-Germain, and the New Inquisition have all set their sights on the coming apocalypse and put their ante on the table. The only people you can trust are your friends are yourself, and you're not always sure about yourself.

It's a pulp apocalypse, and the players have front-row seats for the steel-cage death match of all eternity.

I will be offering a 1st level Swords and Wizardry Core game. It will be based in old school Wilderlands, with a big dash of Carcosa. Everything else will be sandbox. The feel will be very sword and sorcery. I’m actually thinking of incorporating some ideas from the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG beta rules.

I’m 42 and have been DMing since ’81, when I got into the hobby via the mishmash of B/X and AD&D1st. Within a few months, I was also running Traveller, and Top Secret. I loved trying new systems and genres, and bought/continue to buy many different RPGs.

I fell out of love with AD&D around ’85 or so. Rolemaster soon became my go to fantasy system and remained so until ’07. Savage Worlds gets a lot of play from me now, but I’m really itching to get back to the old school

In ’08 I stumbled across Labyrinth Lord, Swords and Wizardry, and the Old School Primer in one place. I soon found myself on the OD&D forums and completely entranced by everything about the OSR, and OD&D in particular. I printed off my own lbbs and eventually hunted down a sweet deal on a 5thprinting White Box with the supps.

I am currently playing in three regular games. Every Monday evening I play in a D&D 4th campaign that is winding down a two year run (thank god. Every other Sat I play in a Pathfinder game using the Legends of Anglerre rules. Every other Friday I’m running a Top Secret game.

For at least the next three weeks I will have time available in the early to mid afternoon Central Standard Time (Des Moines, Iowa USA) Tu-Th. Once school is back in session, I will be available from early evening (5:30pm ish) until 10pm.

Quick question to other DMs – how are you handling die rolls? Anyone have a good on screen solution?

@arcadaynI've been looking to break into an OSR style D&Desque game so lvl 1 S&W is right up my alley. I'm a complete newbie but I've been reading for quite some time.

Tues - Thu is good but I'm on the east coast and I work and commute so 7:30pm EST is probably the earliest I could start. That's a bit later than your start times for the next few weeks, but probably fits in with your school session availability.

Wow! Four guys already! I'm gonna cap it there, at least until I'm a little more comfortable with how this works.

As I stated before, we will be using S&W core rules. The following rule options will be in effect:-Thieves-Descending AC-Saving Throw Categories-Option 1 initiative except each PC and monster group rolls it's own init.-Weapon vs AC Mods

We will start up at 1:30pm cst on Tu. Please email me a copy of your 1st level PC before then. My gee male handle is arcadayn44. Feel free to contact me with any questions!

Ok, I was a little vague earlier. From Monday, August 1 until Friday, August 5, I'll run Unknown Armies when contacted on G+. My name is Tony Love, contact info is cryiron@gmail.com. I'm using/dinking around online somewhere on G+ in the background anytime between 10 am until midnight. It takes around 15 minutes to make a character, so look forward to being dumped into play quickly. (UA description is above).

From August 8 until August 12, I'm up for a little Hollowpoint:

Hollowpoint is a role-playing game that uses a novel engine to generate fast on-the-fly violent action at the drop of a hat, brought to you by the award-winning developers of Diaspora. It's ideally suited to a single evening's play and encourages regular character death because, hey, this shit's dangerous.

Or Fiasco:

Fiasco is a GM-less game for 3-5 players, designed to be played in a few hours with six-sided dice and no preparation. During a game you will engineer and play out stupid, disastrous situations, usually at the intersection of greed, fear, and lust. It's like making your own Coen brothers movie, in about the same amount of time it'd take to watch one.

@valiance - Lets see what the other guys' availability is. If we stick to the two hour limit, I have no problem starting as late as 3 or 4. I'll go with whatever time works for the majority of the players.

I'd like to play a few games and once I get my eye in run a game. Would some kind RPG/Zack loving soul please send me an invite (and not any viagra adverts, I have enough of those) to barsi {rat} rocketmail {Spot} com

When? 2 weeks from now. (I'm travelling next week and need a bit of time to prepare)

Where? G+ Hotspot No camera? That's fine.

Time: Friday 12 Aug 8PM AST (+3 GMT)| 5PM GMT | 1PM EST

Roll up 4 characters: One one side of a 3x5 note card roll 3d6, in order, pick a race you qualify for, pick a class you qualify for, roll HP for level 1, pick thee spells if you're a wizard, don't buy equipment. On the back, write down your racial abilities. Every thing else is as in LL+AEC with one exception noted below.

Theives, use the Specialist class from LotFP (described here: http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/stonehell-and-its-surrounds/wikis/specialist-or-thief)

Be prepared to have your characters die horribly. It's Dark Sun, not Fluffy Medieval Bunny Cuddling Time. Don't bother with back-stories - your back-story gets put together over the course of your first six levels. Right now you guys are nobodies who have done nothing of import except get yourselves captured by slavers.

Adventurer Conqueror King starting now, which is to say 1 am New York / 10 pm Los Angeles, and running until 3 am NYC / 1 am LA. The PCs are potential hirelings of Fango, a fighting man who recently returned to Krakesborough with a red gem worth a thousand gold. Jaquays fans: yes it's OK if you've read the Dungeoneer Compendium and catch the reference. Visit http://www.autarch.co/character-builder/ for an email with your stats, then forward that to tavis@archon.co - this also being the non-Google+ way to get in touch with me, on Google+ as Tavis Allison.- Tavis

UPDATE: Since all the interest I've heard has been of the form "I'd love to play Tunnels & Trolls, just not Sunday" Consider it to be rescheduled, I'll post here when I've figured out when, so in the next few days.

@ arcadayn I appreciate the flexibility, but I can't even do 3 or 4. The earliest I could do during the week (M to F) would be 7 or 7:30 pm EST, which means 6 or 6:30 pm CST. It appears that time works for 3 weeks from now, when you're back in school, but not right now, unfortunately.

@ Capheind I'd totally try TT on a weekend or after 7:30pm EST on a weekday.

@Roger Burgess this darksun business sounds interesting, but I can't make the 1pm EST time. Maybe next time!

@hartful - We'll be starting 4:00pm cst on Tu. So far, I have Zak and Anathematician confirmed. Daliance is on hold for a few weeks and WildBill hasn't responded for a while. You'll find my email posted above. Just shoot me your google+ name.

If anyone's interested in playing a pickup game of (loosely) 1st Edition AD&D in a murky vintage (or, if you prefer, "retro-stupid") dungeon from my younger days starting anytime from about now to about an hour from now (12 Midnight EST/9PM PST/4AM London) for about two hours, contact me at ColeConstantCon (at) (gmail).

Same offer goes for tomorrow. Nothing elaborate, but I'd like to try the Constant-Con out. I'll provide pregen characters.

I'm going to be running another Legacy of the Bieth session (see above in comments) on Saturday August 13 at 9 PM EST/1 AM GMT.

Same business as above, level 3 characters, no halflings or gnomes and all that. For further details, you can check this out, the setting map is on the blog also, but really, you can just hop in and go.

Running another pickup game of the advertised "(loosely) 1st Edition AD&D in a murky vintage (or, if you prefer, "retro-stupid") dungeon"starting about an hour from now (12 Midnight EST/9PM PST/4AM London) for about two hours; If anyone else wants to join up, contact me at ColeConstantCon (at) (gmail). Thanks.

Zak, I like all the energy you're putting into this Google+ "Constantcon" idea. As I just commented over at Grognardia, if enough people get on board, I think something like this could really hit critical mass and revolutionize the hobby. It could be a virtual recreation of the free-wheeling good ole days in high school when us gamers used to gather in empty classrooms for spur-of-the moment RPG pick-up sessions. Certainly feels more Old School than the scheduled biweekly meetings most of us old-timers have to settle for.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for someone to announce a game that fits my schedule...